Speaking the users´ languages

Author

Isard, Amy ; Oberlander, Jon ; Mathes, Colin ; Androutsopoulos, Ion

Author_Institution

Edinburgh Univ., UK

Volume

18

Issue

1

fYear

2003

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

45

Abstract

The authors describe a system that generates descriptions of museum objects tailored to the user. The texts presented to adults, children, and experts differ in several ways, from the choice of words used to the complexity of the sentence forms. M-PIRO can currently generate text in three languages: English, Greek, and Italian. The grammar resources are language independent as much as possible. M-PIRO´s system architecture is significantly more modular than that of its predecessor ILEX. In particular, the linguistic resources, database, and user-modeling subsystems are now separate from the systems that perform the natural language generation and speech synthesis.

Keywords

Internet; grammars; linguistics; natural language interfaces; speech synthesis; speech-based user interfaces; user modelling; English; Greek; ILEX system; Internet; Italian; M-PIRO system; database; grammar resources; linguistic resources; museum object description generation; natural language generation; sentence; speech synthesis; system architecture; user-modeling; Application software; Business; Cultural differences; Graphics; Labeling; Marketing and sales; Mobile communication; Natural languages; Speech synthesis; Usability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Intelligent Systems, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1541-1672

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIS.2003.1179192

Filename

1179192